{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1820577"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1820577/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2026PR7841/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2026PR7841/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"low","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2026PR7841","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":null},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1820577","accessionNumber":"E.680-2026","objectType":"Print","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Wood engraving depicting 'The Child's Grave', an illustration to Hans Christian Andersen, with inscription. Sheet 205x135mm","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Headlam, Mary","id":"AUTH412780"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"},{"text":"paper (fiber product)","id":"AAT14109"}],"techniques":[{"text":"wood engraving","id":"AAT53303"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"wood engraving; ink on paper","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"},{"text":"Illustration","id":"THES48938"},{"text":"Fairy tales and Legends","id":"THES263583"},{"text":"Women artists","id":"THES387590"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2026PR7841"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLH","id":"THES49654"},"free":"","case":"WD","shelf":"234","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Print","id":"AAT41273"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1931","earliest":"1926-01-01","latest":"1935-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by David Peretz","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"125","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"96","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Beneath Image: 'The Child's Grave M. Headlam; Bottom centre: June 4th","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscriptions beneath image and bottom centre"}],"objectHistory":"This print is an illustration to 'The Child in the Grave' (1859) by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), a melancholy and religious story about a grieving mother. Mary Headlam began printmaking in earnest from the mid-1920s. She was inspired by the seminal Exhibition of Drawings, Etchings & Woodcuts by Samuel Palmer and other Disciples of William Blake, held at the V&A from 20 October to 31 December 1926. In her wood engravings, Headlam often reworked illustrations she had made in the early 1900s for Andersen’s fairytales, which had gained widespread popularity in Britain from the 1840s.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"'The Child's Grave', wood engraving, by Mary Headlam, artist's proof state, Britain, ca. 1931","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.680-2026"],"accessionNumberNum":"680","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2026,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-07-17","recordCreationDate":"2026-04-22","availableToBook":false}}